The patch titled spidernet: memory barrier has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is spidernet-memory-barrier.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: spidernet: memory barrier From: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Add memory barrier to make sure that the rest of the RX descriptor state is flushed to memory before we tell the hardware that its ready to go. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/spider_net.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-memory-barrier drivers/net/spider_net.c --- a/drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-memory-barrier +++ a/drivers/net/spider_net.c @@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ spider_net_prepare_rx_descr(struct spide card->spider_stats.rx_iommu_map_error++; descr->dmac_cmd_status = SPIDER_NET_DESCR_NOT_IN_USE; } else { + wmb(); descr->dmac_cmd_status = SPIDER_NET_DESCR_CARDOWNED | SPIDER_NET_DMAC_NOINTR_COMPLETE; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch hvcs-char-driver-janitoring-move-block-of-code.patch spidernet-dma-coalescing.patch spidernet-add-net_ratelimit-to-suppress-long-output.patch spidernet-rx-locking.patch spidernet-refactor-rx-refill.patch spidernet-rx-skb-mem-leak.patch spidernet-another-skb-mem-leak.patch spidernet-cleanup-return-codes.patch spidernet-rx-refill.patch spidernet-merge-error-branches.patch spidernet-remove-unused-variable.patch spidernet-rx-chain-tail.patch spidernet-turn-rx-irq-back-on.patch spidernet-memory-barrier.patch spidernet-avoid-possible-rx-chain-corruption.patch spidernet-rx-debugging-printout.patch spidernet-rework-rx-linked-list.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html